Still Growing: How America's Renewable Energy Industry is Surviving in the Trump Era

This article identifies and analyzes several factors that have allowed state governments, municipalities and private businesses in the United States to perpetuate renewable energy growth amid diminishing federal government assistance under President Donald Trump. The uneven political dynamic presently on display in the US-with prominent national-level government leaders supporting incumbent fossil fuel energy interests while numerous subnational governments and private entities seek instead to promote renewable energy growth-similarly exists to some degree in some other countries. Examining how subnational policy efforts and other factors are perpetuating US renewable energy growth in this challenging environment may thus help to inform energy policymaking as similar circumstances arise elsewhere in the world.